Process for curing and canning sausage-meat



H. VE-RH'AGE. Process forCuring and Canning Sausage Meats.

No. 224,563. Patented Feb. 17,1880.

I bag, A, (see Fig. 2,) whichis somewhat larger than the can B. The bag is now compactly UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE. j

HENRY VERHAGE, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PROCESS FOR CURING AND CANNING SAUSAGE-MEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 224,563, dated February 17, 1880.

I Application filed July 2s,1s79.

i To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY VERHAGE, a

I resident of the city of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Process of Curing, Packing, and Canning Sausage-Meat, ofwhich the following is a 1 specification. I

The object of my invention is to secure certain advantageous results connected with curing, packing, and canning'of 1 sausage-meat, to Wit, preventing shrinkagejof meat when packed in the can, greater excellence in the flavor and quality of the meat when packed,

greater expedition in the packingof the meat into the cans or metal cases, and an improvement in the process of curing it whereby the 1 I meat is better prevented from decay.

The. main features of my invention are,

first, the insertion of the sausage-meat into a bag of the size and shape of the interior of the can into which the meat is finally to he placed, and the submission of the meat While in the said bag to aprocess of smoking; secnd, in a novel process of cooking the meat j win tlie can, said process being hereinafter more "fully described. I

q l package of meat within not beingshown in section, but as it appears when the side of the Inthe accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, Figures 1 and 2 are vertical central sections of a can and its lid, the

a can is stripped off.

finely cutup in the usual manner and .by any suitable device. It is then placed within a filled with meat M and the mouth thereof closed with a string tied thereabout, and the bag and :its contents are thoroughly smoked after thc manner of smoking hams, quarters of heef, &c. This smoking ot' the meat causes itto shrink, and also solidifies together the entire mass of meat, and further cures it and The bag is now placed within the can B and the top of the bag crowded down even with the top of the can, after which the top is fitted and soldered to, the can, and the latter is placed in a vessel of boiling water and boiled for the space of two hours, after which it is immediately vented-that is, the lid is punctured at thecenter m by apick or sharppointed punch. The gelatine ortallow, which has been caused to boil within the can during the boiling operation just alluded to, has created a sufficient vapor. 8tc.,'to cause the gelatine to expel all of the liquid contained in the meat in the can through an orifice punched at m. As soon as the liquid and vapor havebeen quite fully expelled the venthole m is immediately closed bysolder, and on the cooling of the can a vacuum is created in the latter, which aids in keeping the meat pure and sweet. Finally, the can is placed in a closed vessel and subjected to a second cooking of about a half an hour in length by steam of a temperature of 250 to 260 Fahrenheit, and subjected to a pressure of some thirty pounds to the square inch. The

pressure of the steam on the outside of the can aids in counterbalancing the pressure of the steam generated Within the can, and thus preventing the can from bursting.

My invention is applicable to any description of meat.

When the cans are short the meat M may be divested of the bags and placed within the canfas shown in Fig. l. i

I What 1 claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

The above-described process of curing and packing meat. consisting of various steps, as escape; the vent is then closed and the whole follows: cut-ting up the meat and placing it subjected to a second cooking-under a high within a bag and subjecting it to a thorough pressure of steam, all substantially as and for 10 smoking, after which said bag of smoked the purposes specified.

meat is placed and securely sealed in a can, Attest: HENRY VERHAGE. which is placed in a vessel and boiled, after E. H. FOSTER, which the can is vented to allow the liquid to JNO. W. STREHLI. 

